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Special Olympics Online Learning Portal is Going Global!

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After many months of work, Special Olympics is bursting with excitement to share that our online coach education courses are now available in even more global languages.
Thanks to the support of our incredible teams around the world, the Special Olympics Online Learning Portal is now available in:

English | Français | 中文 | Español | عربى | русский | 日本人 | Ελληνικά | Português | 한국어 | हिन्दी

Official Special Olympics Languages: English, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic and Chinese along with Japanese, Greek, Portuguese, Korean and Hindi.

We have also added new languages to several of our sport and coaching courses. Please see the table below to learn which languages are available in each course (new additions in bold).

Courses

Special Olympics Young Athletes Coaching Course

Available in: English, Spanish, Chinese

Level 1 Sport Assistant

Available in: English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Greek, Indonesian (Bahasa), Thai, Portuguese (Br)
Coming soon: Korean, Russian

Level 2 Coaching Assistant

Available in: English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Greek, Indonesian (Bahasa), Thai, Portuguese (Br)
Coming soon: Korean, Russian

Level 3 Coach

Available in: English, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Greek, Portuguese (Br)
Coming soon: Korean

Special Olympics Unified Sports Coaching Course

Available in: English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese,
Coming soon: French, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Korean, Portuguese (Br)

Special Olympics World Games Coach Preparation Course

Available in: English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, Russian
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